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TUESDAY, JUNE 15, 1926.

FRENCH PRESIDENT. MINERS MANIFESTO.

PROGRAMME OF VISIT TO BRITAIN.

REGAL PREPARATIONS,

(British Wireless Service.)

Rugby, June 14.

The programme' of the State visit of M. Doumergus, the French President, is officially issued.

On disembarking at Dover on Tuesday, June 22, the President will be received by H.R.H. the

Prince of Wales, and will be pre sented with an address from the town of Dover. On arrival at Vie toria Station, he will be recolved by His Majesty the King and will drive to Buckingham Palace, where he will be receiver by Her Majesty the Queen. Later in the afternoon the President will visit the Ceno. taph and the grave of the unknown warrior at Westminster Abbey, and will also pay visits to members of the oyal Family. Subsequently he will go to St. James's Palace, where he will receive addresses from the London Lounty Council and the City of Westminster, and will hold receptions of the personnel of the French Embuany, the Franch colony, and the Chamber of Com

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merce. In the evening there will be a State banquet at. Buckingham Palace.

THE CHINA MAIL.

LORD OXFORD.

HAS THE TURNING POINT. BEEN REACHEDT

SLIGHT ILLNESS AT COUNTRY HOUSE.

(British Wireless Service.)

Rugby, June 12. The Miners' Federation has issued a new manifesto in which it reaffirms the points on which the minors are standing out. It then proceads to request that "in view of the determined opposition to re- organisation expressed by the mine owners the first step shall be the submission by the Government of precise and detailed schemes of reorganisation for discussion and criticism. The manifesto con- cludes:We want a wages spree. ment that will give us económic security and provide proper safe- guards and machinery whereby the men can get their wagos adjusted and their conditions guaranteed without continued upheavals.

The Conservative

organ, the

"Daily Telegraph," in commenting on the, manifesto, declares that it contains what amounts to an invi- Enton to the Government to renew.

attempt to bring the two sides- together and effect a settlement, though this cunhot be done, unless the Federation is prepared to abate some of its demands. The "Daly Telegraph" adds thut the last son tence cited above is. "quite proper and a reasonable declaration of the men's requirements. No exception

ABSOLUTE REST NEEDED.

...

(British Wireless Service.)

Rugby, June 14,

Lord Oxford and Asquith, the Liberal Leader, is at his country house in Berks.

Lord Oxford.

A bulletin issued this afternoon

HUMAN VIRTUES.

CANTON OFFICIAL'S KIND EXAMPLE.

THE CHINESE VIEW.

(From Our Own Correspondent.)

Pakkai, Kongmoon, June 10. The following have been given to me as particular virtues which are very welcome in a Cantonese official (or politician) -

Never annoys the people and strictly forbids his subordinates to indulge in any bullying.

He has a private sedan chair and is entitled to ride free on the railway. Still, he usually gets about on foot and always takes a third class seat in the -train----

All unreasorable taxes have been abolished.

NEW ARMAGEDDON FORETOLD

AN EARTHQUAKE' IN BRITAIN NEXT YEAR.

· Old Mooru has already publishedi his almanack for 1927, and if his forecasts ‘are true the League of Nations might as well auction off ita furniture and effects at Geneva at once without troubling to call another Disarmament Conference.

Not that there is to be another war in 1927. That is reserved for the following year, but the first signs of the new Armageddon will be noticeable next year, and the business man who refuses to read the writing on the wall and cus hía losses while the cutting is good, deserves bankraptes.

Also, anys Old 'Moore; there is to be an earthquake or two. One will shake the British Isles and another will wreck Tokyo. Besides this, a This praise is for Mr. Yim Pok-Liberal will join the Labour Party kau, district magistrate (in reality on. February 8. the governor of one of the seventy odd divisions of Kwangtung: province) of Sanwui. He is call ed the best they have ever had...

EMPIRE-AIRWAYS.

FUTURE DEVELOPMENT

SCHEMES

(British Wireless Service,). Rugby, June 13, Sir Samuel Hoare, Secretary Empire League, spoke on the future development of Empire air communication.

can be taken to it as regards either,], states that Lord Oxford'a condi- its tone or sense. Upon that basis. tion, though, not serious, necca-for Air, in an address to the

It should be possible to renew altatee absolute rest in consequence negotiations with some hope of a of a mild attack of angina pectoris favourable and lasting result, and |, following influenza. If, as we must suppose, the sentence in question was directed with that purpose in view, the Government will hardly hesitate to avail itself of the opportunity so held out."

CHINESE GIFT.

VESTMENTS FOR PAPAL LEGATE.

"(Reuter's American Service.)

the women

Chicago, June 14,

The Daily Telegraph" remarks that this is only one indication that the turning point has at last been reached in the dispute. Another indication is the actual or impend- ing return to work of miners in certain districts, notably at five pits Mr. PoPa-hung and ir in Warwickshire and at Ollerton, in Nicholas Tau. two of the industrial Nottinghamshire. There is also a lenders of China, who are here to remarkable letter to the leaders of attend the Eucharistic Congress, the Mineva Federation, signed by have presented. Cardinal Bonzuno, thirteen miners in the Mansfield the Papal Legate, who was at one area of Nottinghamshire, in which time a missionary in China, with it is stated that "where anything a set of Pontifical Mass vestments like old terms can be paid, the pits of white and gold silk, woven by should be thrown open at once and

and children of the let others face the facts aquarely | Hospice of St. Joseph, Shanghai. and make terms according to their ability to pay.". It was reported yesterday that large numbers of men in the district were adding their signatures to this letter, which not only throws over the Federation but attacks the Tedera In the evening he will attend ation leaders. It says: "Our dinner at the French Embassy. Trade Union machinery is in the On Thursday "moraing the Pre-hands of men who place political sident will visit the French Hos ambition and revolutionary projects pital, in Shaftesbury Avenue, and before our industrial welfare. We will hold a reception of the Corps are the victims of a policy we have Diplomatique at.. Buckingham neither made no believe in, and Palace.. Afterward he will leave are earnestly desirous of bringing Buckingham Palace for the to an end cnce and for all these Guildhall, where he will be present distressing disputes." ed with an address from the Lord Mayor and the Corporation of the City of London, and will be enter

An 'Oxford Degree. On Wednesday the President will go by motor car to Oxford to receive the degree of Doctor of Civil Law

Lained at luncheon. In the evening

he will attend a dinner at the Foreign Office.

M. Doumergue will leave London on Friday, June 25.

MEAT SUPPLIES.

PROTECTION OF BRITISH LIVESTOCK.

(British Wireless Service.)

Rugby, June 13,

Mr. Baldwin's Reference.

Possibly his secession is the pre-

lude to the "great success" which

is to be "scored by Labour" in the following month.*

Apall May, and June will be) comparatively peaceful and harm "lasg months, though there will be a number of strikes, Stock Ex- change collapses, treachery in Arabia, sedition. In India, and France will be diacontented.. There will be rioting in July, a hot. month all round.

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Saturn is going to cause 'troubið in September. Spain, California, und Forsla will be vexed with series of great evils and disasters. Mars, at the same time, will con Ruaxia ajderably upset Turkey.

time become" 1 will about this menace to England.

He envisaged a remarkable im- provement in the near future. He said that during the next ten A sensational case of fraud will years, the three main lines of pro- be ventilated in October..

November will experience in- Aeroplane gress should be: routes to India in four days, to udequate food supplies, bud trade, Australia in ten days, to Nawan attempt to liberate prisoners. Zealand in twelve days, and to London, in addition to losses at sea. days. Atud an outbreak of plague in some Cape Town, in six some time also a fourth line parta. might well be formed across the Atlantic to Canada in two and a half days, but for the present the compétition

of

December is to be the most re- markable month of the year. for

H.A. HOTEL RESIDENTS.

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Mr C. P. Anderson Mr and Mrs J. D Mr and Mrs E. J. MacLaren

Andiffet Mr and Mrs. F.

Barberat

MrJ. K. B. Malcolm. MTF. Mayer

the signs, of "a new and great de- trans-Atlantic vastation and Armageddon" will. liners might make that line com- become visible. The war fever will mercially more difficult to in-assert itself. augurate. When once those Em- pire trunk lines were running, smaller lines, would no doubt radiate from them, linking up with them the territories of this or that Crown Colony or depen: dency. The steps that were be ing taken to carry this policy into effect were to organise landing grounds and seaports and he ask ed, the Dominions and Crown Colonies to assist in this work. Ar effort was also being made to start commercial lines over the Empire by means of airships. He believed the airship could be made a usoful weapon of Empire defence and an invaluable in strument of Imperial unity. A protracted period of research and experiment had shown that there was no technical reason why air ships, capable of carrying 100 passengers and 20 tons of freight and a crew of fifty, should not

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atake was not the solidarity of Labour nor the fate of the miners, but the life of the State there was a response to the country's need, deep and irresistible. "There was that feeling in the country because the leaders and men who were on strike felt it in their innermost hearts, too. They felt the conflict of Joyalties, and they knew the some conflict was raging in the breasts of thousands of men who had fought for their country ter years age. Many of the strikers vere uneasy in their consciences, because the British workman, as Rugby, June 13.

Mr. Henry S. Waterman, who In view of the debate on the coal know him, does not like breaking run on regular and punctual ser-has just been assigned to the situation which is taking place in contracts. We have a party syvices to all parts of the Empire. American Consulate at Shanghai, the House of Commons: on Tuesday tem acceptable to public opinion in Considerable progress. had been the Premier made only a brief re- the country and we legislate in made with, the construction of and Mrs. Waterman were passen- ference to it in a speech delivered:cordance with that opinion.

We have these things and we the Government but they would rived at Shanghai on June 5. Mr. two great airships being built for gera from the States on the "President Cleveland” which ar- at a large Conservative demonstra- tion in Wiltshire yesterday.

not be able to fly to the Domin-Waterman was formerly attached volutionary change can give usions unless masts were built and more democratic freedom. The in this work he invited the assist-Central America:

the service in Costa Rica,! British people are not goitig to ance of the different Govern- throw over Parliament to set up ments. The backbone of the Em- Divine right either of the pire was ita line of communica- capitalist or trade unionist and wetions and it was this that he wish- are not going to bow down to the ed to strengthen. dictatorship of either. In no coun- try of the world is there less need to do so and in no country in the world is there less reason, politi cally, for a general strike

He expressed regret that both

know in our hearts that no re-

the

Trade Disputes."

FOR BUENOS AIRES.

sides had rejected the arbitration he offered, since he believed that a settlement procurable by such a method would have been the best possible until fresh riachinery had been set up whereby their troubles might be adjusted in the future. But whatever the settlement to be In the course of his speech in reached might be, one must be Wiltshire on Saturday, the Pre-reached before long and the first

(Reuter's Service,) .mier made reference to the pro-business would be afterward to get tection of British livestock against together and repair the losses

Paramaribo (Dutch-Guiana) foot and mouth disease and the which the country"had, austained: The Premier, said he hoped to se

June 18. restrictions recently imposed The Premier referred to recent the British Labour movement free.

Duggan, the Argentinian against carcases imported from industrial events and said that from alien and foreign heresy but airman, has departed en route to Belgium and Holland, mainly of the last few months would occupy pursued and developed on British Buenos Aires. pigs used for bacon curing in Bri-a conspicuous place in history, lines laid down by British men. tain. He said the annual volume The "general strike was called, When they lind got the coal trouble" of supplies stopped amounted to ostensibly, to assist the miners, but out of the way they would try once only about three per cent. of the if it had succeeded the strikers more to see whether they could not British meat supply. Neverthe- and everyone else would have been choose a better way and find less, he regretted having to im- brought down to starvation and methods for avoiding strškės" at pose such restriction, particularly ruin. Events took place which, if Home. "As the burden of armB-" when the countries affected were they had occurred among a leasment has been crushing the life near neighbours and good friends disciplined people, would have led out of Europe in years past, so has of Britain. No other course was, to riot, and a revolution would the money lost in trade disputes However, possible,--

have quickly followed. True to these last years been far more tradition the people had kept their harmful to the standard of living heads. He recognised the courage, of the worker than any alleged that it took on the part of leaders conspiracy of the part of the Gov who had taken the false step toernment or anyone else." He bn- recede from that position, aan- lieved the time was soon coming. conditionally as they did. But if when what had been impossible the strike, showed solidarity and under the clouds of suspicions. sympathy with the miners it show might become possible for a more ed something else far greater. It enlightened and statesmanlike mind proved the stability of the whole among employers and trade union Peking, June 14.

fabric of Great Britain. To the leaders. The Government would It is stated that General Yeh amazement of the world not a shot give every help. Kai-hsin was forced to evacuate was fired. We were saved by the the Hengchow region, and now common sense and good temper of occupies the line between Liling our own people. Immediately the and Hsinaghsiang Reports cur- rent in Chinese military circles in public grasped that what was at

∙CHINESE WAR.

REINFORCEMENTS FOR YEH

KAI-HSIN.

(Router's Service.)

dicate that refuforcements are being sent hurriedly to Yeh K hein's aid General Ma Chi's troops

having already reached Yochow

Cotton Industry.

(Reuter's Service)

London, June 14.

As a result of the coal atoppage,

Governor A Harry Moore, of Now

TAKE THIS BEFORE GOING,

you want to be that unfortunate 100,000 cotton operatives in Lan

men whose coughing at church, cashire are on short time in mills while General Liu Ching-shan's concert lecture or thestro,, blote out spinning American cotton, which a txtile strike by bringing the strikers!) forces are now en route from the word we mest wint to hearre working alternate venis. Even Ichang to Pushi, an important Chamberlain's Cough Remedy helps rails opinning Egyptian Cotton are "these" embarrassed ones, quickly puts? point on the Changaha-Huceh an end to coughing and ticking throat hard hit, and as expected to close Railway

For sale everywherent Staked on Fridays and Saturdays

Jersey, endeavoured to settle the

with the American Federation of Labour and taking them from the infipimine to their presentargaalaura to tom the mill aware object

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Shadows Before.

COMING EVENTS ANNOUNCED IN THE MAIL.”

Entertainments.

June 15-Star Theatre: "Little Johnny Jones."

Jung - 15-World Theatre; "His People"

June 15-Queen's Theatre: "The "Lost World."

June 17-Open Air Ballet at Lee Garden, North Point, 9.15 p.m.

June 21-Al fresco concert on the Vicarage tennis court, Kow, joon,

*June

Auctions.

17--At Lammert Bros.' Sales -Room- miscellaneous goods, 11 a.m

June 17—At "St. George's House” Kennedy Road, valuable household furniture by Messrs. Lammert Bros., at 2.30 pm. ·

· "June" · 18—At. Messra. Lammert: Bros, Sales Room, household furni ture and Canton Bidgood ware, etc.) 2.30 p.m.

Meetings

June 21-Half-yearly meeting-of Kongkang Jockey Club members in Jockey Club Room Hongkong Club Annex, 5:15 pm

June. 24-Second yearly meeting of the Hongkong Tug & Lighter Co., Ltd., et Mears. Shewan, Tames |

Co's office, 11.80 nm,

Miscellaneous.

Jane 17-Official opening of now bremmes of the Institution of En- gineer and Shipbuilders by HE. the Governor, at 8.80 p

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